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Teenager dies near encounter site in Jammu and Kashmir

| | Mar 09, 2017, at 10:16 pm
Srinagar, Mar 9 (IBNS): A teenage student of class XI was killed near an encounter site, in south Kashmir's Pulwama district, where two militants were holed up inside a house, on Thursday.

The student, identified as Amir Wani, a resident of Pulwama's Beegumbagh-Kakapora, was "hit by a stray bullet”, when civilians clashed with the security forces to help the militants escape.

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Pulwama, Talat Jabeen, confirmed the death of Wani.

Police sources said the militants — identified as Jehangeer Ahmad Ganai and Shafat Ahmad Sherguri — were trapped inside a house. The
militants opened fire at a security team, triggering an encounter.

They said there were massive blasts near the house where the militants were holed up.


(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

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